Showing posts with label Vehicles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vehicles. Show all posts

Friday, June 27, 2014

Cambridge Fire Department's Newest Vehicle, The Gator


These are images of the newest vehicle used by the Cambridge Fire Department for accessing unusual spaces. It is called the Gator, manufactured by John Deere. Here is a link to more details of this six-wheel, four-wheel driven vehicle. It uses a diesel engine. Top speed is 20 mph. Cost about $12,000.

http://www.deere.com/wps/dcom/en_US/products/equipment/gator_utility_vehicles/traditional_utility_vehicles/t_series/th_6x4_diesel/th6x4diesel.page?



The John Deere Symbol is in the grille. 


Parked at the fire department headquarters station at Broadway and Cambridge Street


Six wheels, but only the rear four provide momentum 

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Cambridge MA City Vehicle Promotes Kwanzaa, History


Images captured December 5, 2013, at the entrance to the underpass for Broadway and Cambridge Street under the Harvard University Science Center. Photos by Roy Bercaw.


Kwanzaa sign on Cambridge MA city truck doing public works on December 5, 2013. 


Flagstaff Park can be seen in background. Roadway is for traffic going north onto Mass Avenue, and to Garden Street or to Harvard Square. Christ Church at Zero Garden Street can be seen directly above the Kwanzaa sign. 

[From article]
If the media told the truth about Kwanzaa, then every right-thinking American would realize it's a fraud. Instead we get the same silly endorsement of this "African" feast that has nothing to do with Africa and everything to do with California in the 1960s.
[. . .]
Even the timing of Kwanzaa is fake. Karenga said the name "Kwanzaa" means "first fruits of the harvest." The harvest typically occurs in autumn, which is the end of the growing season. Kwanzaa is set in late December. That makes no sense if the purpose of the holiday is to commemorate harvest celebrations. But that's not the purpose. The purpose is to sow racial discord by creating a competing holiday for Christmas, one celebrated only by black people.

http://blog.nj.com/njv_paul_mulshine/2013/12/its_that_time_of_year_again_-.html

It's that time of year again - time to debunk Kwanzaa

By Paul Mulshine
The Star Ledger
on December 20, 2013 at 11:28 AM, updated December 20, 2013 at 3:41 PM

[December 2012 article on Kwanzaa]
[From article]
In 1967, Karenga was accused of having his thugs beat up a student who asked him an impertinent question at a college forum. In 1969, US got involved in a struggle with the Black Panthers for control of the black studies program at UCLA. All involved carried guns on campus. The US guys were quicker on the draw; they killed two Panthers in a shootout at the student center.
[. . .]
Karenga is now a professor at California State University in Long Beach.

http://blog.nj.com/njv_paul_mulshine/2012/12/the_media_are_still_falling_fo.html

Unhappy Kwanzaa - the media are still falling for that fake holiday created by a felon
By Paul Mulshine
The Star Ledger
on December 26, 2012 at 12:45 PM

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[original 2002 article by same author]
[From article]
On December 24, 1971, the New York Times ran one of the first of many articles on a new holiday designed to foster unity among African Americans. The holiday, called Kwanzaa, was applauded by a certain sixteen-year-old minister who explained that the feast would perform the valuable service of "de-whitizing" Christmas. The minister was a nobody at the time but he would later go on to become perhaps the premier race-baiter of the twentieth century. His name was Al Sharpton and he would later spawn the Tawana Brawley hoax and then incite anti-Jewish tensions in a 1995 incident that ended with the arson deaths of seven people.
Great minds think alike. The inventor of the holiday was one of the few black "leaders" in America even worse than Sharpton. But there was no mention in the Times article of this man or of the fact that at that very moment he was sitting in a California prison. And there was no mention of the curious fact that this purported benefactor of the black people had founded an organization that in its short history tortured and murdered blacks in ways of which the Ku Klux Klan could only fantasize.

http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=20535

Happy Kwanzaa
By: Paul Mulshine
FrontPageMagazine.com
Thursday, December 26, 2002

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http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/doc/156710021.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=May%2013,%201971&author=&pub=Los%20Angeles%20Times%20(1923-Current%20File)&edition=&startpage=3&desc=Karenga%20Tortured%20Women%20Followers,%20Wife%20Tells%20Court

Karenga Tortured Women Followers, Wife Tells Court
Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File)
Los Angeles, Calif.
Date: May 13, 1971

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[From article]
Now we know that the FBI fueled the bloody rivalry between the Panthers and United Slaves.
In one barbarous outburst, Karenga's United Slaves shot to death two Black Panthers on the UCLA campus: Al "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins. Karenga himself served time, a useful stepping-stone for his current position as a black studies professor at California State University at Long Beach.
Karenga's invented holiday is a nutty blend of schmaltzy '60s rhetoric, black racism and Marxism. The seven principles of Kwanzaa are the very same seven principles of the Symbionese Liberation Army, another innovation of the Worst Generation.
[. . .]
he essentially said that, under Kawaida, we also hate whites.
[. . .]
Kwanzaa emerged not from Africa, but from the FBI's COINTELPRO. It is a holiday celebrated exclusively by idiot white liberals. Black people celebrate Christmas.

http://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2013/12/24/kwanzaa-the-holiday-brought-to-you-by-the-fbi-n1768296

Kwanzaa: The Holiday Brought To You By the FBI
Ann Coulter
Dec 24, 2013
TownHall.com

Thursday, August 8, 2013

Thieves Steal Purses, Cars at Gas Stations While Owners Distracted




http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/08/07/police-drivers-beware-of-sliders-because-they-are-most-certainly-aware-of-you/

Police: Drivers, Beware Of ‘Sliders,’ Because They Are Most Certainly Aware Of You
Thieves Move Quickly, Snatch Your Items, Often From Underneath Your Nose
August 7, 2013 11:00 PM
CBS News New York NY


Thursday, July 25, 2013

Digital Carjackers Show Off New Attacks




Anatomy of an auto hack: With just a laptop connected to its diagnostics port, Valasek and Miller turned an innocent Prius into the world's worst amusement park ride. Here what they could do.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/07/24/hackers-reveal-nasty-new-car-attacks-with-me-behind-the-wheel-video/

Hackers Reveal Nasty New Car Attacks--With Me Behind The Wheel (Video)
This story appears in the August 12, 2013 issue of Forbes.
Andy Greenberg, Forbes Staff
Covering the worlds of data security, privacy and hacker culture.


Published on Jul 24, 2013
A couple of hackers show off a series of nasty new attacks on cars—with Forbes' Andy Greenberg behind the wheel.



Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Loving Your Car

Man dies at 102 owns same car 82 years

Can you imagine having the same car for 82 years?!!!
I guess it was no longer under warranty...
"How Long Have You Owned a Car?"

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Mr. Allen Swift ( Springfield , MA.) received this 1928 Rolls-Royce Picadilly P1 Roadster from his father, brand new - as a graduation gift in 1928.
He drove it up until his death last year.....at the age of 102 !!!
He was the oldest living owner of a car from new. Just thought you'd like to see it.
He donated it to a Springfield museum after his death. It has 170,000 miles on it, still runs like a Swiss watch, dead silent at any speed and is in perfect cosmetic condition. (82 years) That's approximately 2000 miles per year...

Monday, August 3, 2009

Vehicles in Fire Lane of Buildings

These images show four vehicles parked in the rear of 85 Prescott Street at about 8:00 AM on Monday August 3, 2009. I did not post the license plate numbers but have them available. Two signs identifying this as a Fire Lane are posted on the buildings. It is not known if these people have permission from HRES to park there.